…….Somehow I think most people would prefer that elite surgeon taking their appendix out rather than Joe the plumber…….One of the Republican party’s besetting sins of late is their hypocrisy over elitism and intellectualism……They practice elitism themselves but spend endless hours accusing their opponents of it…..the result schizophrenia and incompetence.

…….In practice most people want elitism…….A good example is the British Royal Navy in the age of fighting sail….popular wisdom would have you believe the only reason seamen obeyed orders and followed their officers was fear of the lash…….well as anyone who has done any sailing will tell you in force 6 these British seaman wanted the guys on the quarter deck to be elitists who knew what they were doing.

I like Jon Stewart’s take on it:
“You know what, candidates? I know elite is a bad word in politics. You want to go bowling and throw back a few beers. But the job you’re applying for, if you get it and it goes well, they might carve your head into a mountain! If you don’t actually think you’re better than us, then what the [expletive] are you doing? “

3 years is a political lifetime. We have no idea what we’ll be facing on the ground in 6 months, let alone 2 or 3 years from now…

Sorry, but in my rather dismal moderate-conservative view of the world, I’d rather have the “elites” running things. I’d rather have brilliant guys like Barack Obama or Bobby Jindal in charge of the show than a spoiled, overprivileged, intellectual mediocrity like George W. Bush.

The last eight years has soured me on the GOP’s phony populism. I’m tired of elitist twits like Mitt Romney who think that they can become “men of the people” simply by exchanging their $3000 suits for cowboy hats and work overalls. I’m sick of multi-millionaires like Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham spouting off about “elites” while living pampered lives in East Coast cities.

“** Seriously. Explain how our debts and especially our unfunded future liabilities (which Obama and the Dems are busy expanding) will simply take care of themselves. Honor us with your theories concerning how the deindustrialization of America is nothing to worry about.”

…….The public debt while a growing problem is actually much smaller as a percentage of GDP than it was in 1945, so it’s by no means unmanageable if the will exists.

……You are however correct about the deindustrialization of America…..it’s a major structural problem……however don’t I remember you railing against plans to rescue the US auto industry.

………She’s as thick as a post…….Stupidity is not alas curable.

……Would you like sin on a moose skin
with Sarah Pa-lin.
……Or would you rather err with her
on some other fur.

“Hmmm, I kinda agree with Barker. That’s wierd.”

(*GRIN*) Hard not to, CfC, considering I’m right. (*WINK*)

Have you checked out the latest thread posted by “The Editors of NM?”

(*SNORT*)

How can you not have contempt for these clowns…???

Re: Dendup; 1:49 PM –

OUTSTANDING! (*HUGE FRIGG’N GRIN*) (*LAUGHING MY ASS OFF*)

Still… when all’s said and done… we really are doomed, Dendup. Avert your gaze if you must, but the stats are the stats.

Except perhaps for a military coup (which ain’t gonna happen – not for decades, if ever) nothing can save this once great nation from what the politicians have done to it.

Maybe those “militia types” up in Montana have the right idea…

(*SHRUG*) (*SNORT*)

BILL

* Hey… I’ve specifically outlined my scenarios – along with my reasoning – several times. Anyone who cares to advance a scenario where the U.S. grows militarily, economically, socially stronger and more cohesive relative to the rest of the world… be my guest.

** Seriously. Explain how our debts and especially our unfunded future liabilities (which Obama and the Dems are busy expanding) will simply take care of themselves. Honor us with your theories concerning how the deindustrialization of America is nothing to worry about.